[nzoschke]

> we are now implementing fleet-wide updates

That ~1000 drivers on the road are all better trained on what to do in the next power outage is incredible.

There will always be unexpected events and mistakes made on the roads. Continual improvement that is locked in algorithmically across the entire fleet is way better than any individual driver's learning / training / behaviorior changes.

[imoverclocked]

Humans seemed to navigate this just fine, even with all the Waymo road blocks and without extra training. If every unknown requires a software update, this system is doomed to repeat this behavior over and over in the long term.

[xnx]

Humans do dumb stuff like drive their cars into flowing floodwaters and they show no signs of stopping. The Waymo Driver (the name for the hardware and software stack) is getting smarter all the time.

[charcircuit]

>seemed to navigate this just fine

From my understanding the reason the Waymos didn't handle this was because humans were breaking traffic rules and going when they shouldn't have been. If most humans navigated it correctly, then waynos would have handled this better.

[tpmoney]

My lived experience with human drivers and outages at intersections is most people get it very wrong. If you're lucky and the lit intersection is 1 lane in each direction, more often than not everything works out well. But any intersection with multiple lanes or especially an intersection that is one primary road and a lower traffic secondary is going to be full of people just flying through as if they were on green the whole time.

[UltraSane]

The average human driver is much worse than waymo.